Art Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

— Jorge Luis Borges

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a…

— Herta Muller

Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in,…

— Matthew Pearl

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies…

— Alejandro Zambra

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

“But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced…

— Camron Wright

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is…

— Shane Warren Jones

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought…

— Richard Ford

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

— Lionel Trilling

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante